The theme of Blood on the River is learning to make decisions out of love and not anger. One event that shows this is when Samuel didn’t tell James how stupid he was for thinking that running to the boats in case of an attack was a good idea, Although it led to James’s death Samuel thought it was the right thing to do at the moment because telling James how ridiculous it sounded would be cruel. One scene in the story that shows Samuel making decisions out of love and not anger is when he took baby Virginia to Point Comfort before the attack occurred against her parent's will to save her. This shows the theme because if Samuel was acting out of anger he would have fought with John and Ann and probably broken or hurt someone by the end. Yet he
